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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ‧ 2005
“You prat Ron, look at the state of her!” “Ginny, don’t call Ron a prat, you’re not the captain of this team—” “Well, you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.”
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
One speaker scolds Ron and points to another person's poor state. Another objects that the scolder lacks any captain's authority to name-call. The retort is that no one else was stepping up, so someone had to say it. It is quick, sharp banter with a defiant edge.
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